Together We Heal

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The state of the world right now is unnerving. In this episode of The Gathering Room, she shares how we can start to heal the parts of us that are in pain or despair over the state of things. Martha says that when we experience trauma, shock, fear, or loss, our psyches can split into different parts to help us cope. To heal this loss of integrity or wholeness, we need to unite all the parts of ourselves that are hurting. And we do this by loving them unconditionally. In this episode, Martha walks us through a powerful visualization exercise to help us access our deepest capacity for love, hope, and joy, so we can welcome the suffering parts of ourselves to “be warmed by the fire of love.” As she describes it, “We have to come together as individuals held by the intelligence of nature, by the consciousness of the universe.” When we can love all the different parts of ourselves, including our sorrow, our fear, our anger, we can love the people around us. And when that happens, vibrant communities begin to form—like Wilder, the “sanctuary for the bewildered” that Martha created with Rowan Mangan. As Martha shares, “Everything I’ve seen online from the people I respect most, whether they’re politically savvy people or psychologists or community organizers, everybody’s saying the same thing: ‘Join something. Connect, connect, connect.’” Shock, overwhelm, fear, and rage are ameliorated as we connect with others who are feeling the same way. And this coming together of the shards of all of us could be what creates the calm beyond the storm. If you’re feeling devastated or uncertain, isolated or afraid, and you want to learn how to let faith, love, and hope guide you to connection and the next right step, don’t miss this reassuring episode of The Gathering Room.

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0:00.0	Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called
0:08.0	Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?
0:14.7	Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke
0:22.0	them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to
0:28.3	marthabeck.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.
0:49.0	Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.
0:50.2	I'm Martha Beck.
0:51.2	Welcome, welcome.
0:52.0	We have well over 100 people on Insta, so I'm going to stop
0:55.4	just welcoming, and I'm going to start today's gathering room, the first one in several weeks,
1:00.1	because I've been traveling so much. And also the first gathering room that I've made since the
1:06.0	2024 presidential election here in the United States. That has had quite an impact on me, as it has, I think, on many, many Americans, and even those
1:16.8	of you from around the world, I know the eyes of the world are very often on America because
1:24.4	it's been such a big, dominating, super wealthy country that has supposedly
1:32.7	stood for the ideals that a lot of people around the world would like to champion.
1:37.7	And even though it hasn't been perfect, I always feel like we get more than our due share of attention from those of you who aren't in the U.S.
1:47.8	Now, I also know that a lot of you out there may be rejoicing at the outcome of that election,
1:54.1	and I am not one of you.
1:56.9	This is not a political podcast, but I do respond to current events, and I live in a house with
2:05.4	someone who has a master's in political science, someone who has a PhD in social work, and I myself
2:13.0	have a PhD in sociology.
2:14.9	So the talk around our house is often about society and social change.
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